Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license

Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest
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On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 05:05:54PM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:
> I know it's being submitted as an OR, but I question
> the value of introducing another license into the kernel's licensing mix.

As a free software hacker *I* value the evolution of copyleft and copyleft-next
does just that. Some may have thought that it may not have been possible to
evolve copyleft and work with an evolved license on Linux, but copyleft-next
shows it is possible. Here in lies the value I see in it.

I agree that we want to keep the number of licenses as small as
possible but we cannot really dictate which dual licensing options a
submitter selects unless the license is GPL-2.0-only incompatible,
which copyleft-next is not.

  Luis
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